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February 11, 2021
With the support of an ACEP section grant, the Medical Humanities Section aspired to create a space for issues common to our practice that might keep us up at night, that we mention in passing to our ...
December 19, 2019
Two newsletters were produced and posted online to section members in winter 2018 and winter 2019. The next newsletter is planned for December 2019.
“Sir, buy me a gingeale!” someone shouts as I turn left and lean against the cold to turn onto Jesse Hill Dr. at 4:45am. The statement is such a sudden cut through the meditation of pedaling that I co...
I’m delighted to have the opportunity to help steer the Section over the next two years and would like to express the heartfelt appreciation I know we all share to Bob Solomon for his leadership from ...
Well, well, well, we are all nearing another lap around the sun as it were as we move from 2019 to 2020.
January 10, 2019
October 3, 2018 San Diego, CA Participating in all or part of the meeting were: Cindy C. Bitter, MD, FACEP; Henry A. Curtis, MD, FACEP; Arthur Derse, MD, JD, FACEP; Matthew Dettmer, MD; J. Shane Hardi...
Two newsletters were produced and posted online to section members in spring and summer 2017. The next newsletter is planned for winter 2018.
‘Betty Luna’ was a frequent flier at all of our local ERs for years. Everyone was on a first name basis with her. To look at her, Betty was truly disgusting.
Hopeless eyes and crying fear Moving from room to room… life to life… Only briefly touching a part: the body. Futile bandage on ailing bodies, Finger in the dam of years of abuse; But somehow missing ...
The question was posed by a friend who was born and raised in the Pittsburgh area, southwestern Pennsylvania. There is an aspect of the local culture that can be found in many American places: if you ...
I personally cannot think of a better way to come in from the cold than with this edition of MUSE. I am delighted to share with you a little winter carnival for your mind and soul. This is made possib...
September 6, 2017
Historians have consistently emphasized the fact that the Union army was wholly unprepared for the Civil War in April of 1861. In almost every aspect of what it takes to wage war on the scale that thi...
The least news from our Chair Dr. Jay Baruch
“If you ever had to adopt a baby then whom would you settle for?” This was the question that I posed to myself recently. Not that I had to nor wanted to adopt a child. I have two of my own (biologica...
March 17, 2017
Ali was on bed 16. He was 10 months old and critically sick. Till the day before, per his mother, Ali had been quite normal. He had been taken to a neighbor’s house by the neighbor’s daughter.
Sunday, February 5th I arrived late at night via Turkish Airways, an airline which consistently provides excellent service, food, and entertainment. As an added bonus, their airport hub in Istanbul is...